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And So We Walked
- Narrated by: DeLanna Studi
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
And So We Walked is a frank, heartwarming, and inspiring story about a contemporary Cherokee woman and her father who embark on an incredible 900-mile journey along the Trail of Tears to truly understand her own identity and the conflicts of her nation. The play recounts the six-week journey, which retraced the path her great-great-grandparents took in the 1830s during the forced relocation of 17,000 Cherokee from their homelands. And So We Walked is a powerful, multifaceted dramatic memoir that draws on extraordinary interviews, historical research, and the artist’s personal experience to convey the complexities and conflicts with which the Cherokee wrestle.
Now available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.
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- Aitor Ibarra
- 07-09-23
Extremely powerful and personal study exploring the inter-generational trauma of a genocide
I am new to Audible thanks to this audiobook, which I elected to buy rather than get it as part of a free trial or subscription. I trust that means that the creator is better remunerated for her work as a result.
The rest of this review is based on my Amazon review (I bought through Amazon)
“You will be a leader. A warrior. A warrior woman.”
This very personal journey honours, and proves the faith the author’s father had in her. He must have been very proud to see this. “We are not extinct.” He said, to his young daughter, and decades later, she proved that by taking him on this sacred journey.
And So We Walked is structured around a retracing of The Trail Of Tears, the journey that the Cherokee nation were forced to make from their homelands in what is now known as North Carolina to Oklahoma. This was part of the many genocides perpetrated against the original peoples of the Americas since 1492.
Studi pulls no punches and is not afraid to cast light on all the shadows: e.g. that some Cherokee were slave owners, that a small group betrayed the entire nation, as she examines her own blood memories and exhorts the descendants of the perpetrators to examine their own. Thousands of people died, not on the walk itself, but in concentration camps where they were held along the way. Every promise made by the US government broken.
It’s also a beautiful study of family.
An incredible stage performance, I don’t have the equipment to enjoy Dolby Atmos but with good quality headphones it’s still an amazing aural experience, capturing Studi’s voices, the audience, music and effects.
I am an atheist who is very comfortable with terms like sacred and spiritual, and I can see that The Trail Of Tears should be seen as a humanist pilgrimage even by people who are not Cherokee; genocide is a crime against humanity. As such I believe it is our sacred duty, as humans, as children of Earth, to listen to people such as Studi, and to anyone whose blood story involves traumas such as genocide, and then move from sorrow and guilt to changing the world for the better.
When we realise that genocide is a feature, rather than a bug, of our so called civilisation, we can change, and have a better future.
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